Career Advancing - Possibly CISCO

Career Advancing - Possibly CISCO

I'm sick of my current career.
So I'm loking for a change..
I've been looking in the classifieds on a few websites and found that -

a. CISCO is a sought after qualification
b. It pays really well

So... how hard is a CCNA?
I have decent knowledge of networks and have been taught various modules in networking infrastructure..

What else should I be looking at? I had thought about a MCSE/A..

I'm finally gonna finish my A+ this month.. been meaning to for ages..

Any advice???????

Forget that.

Lots of people already doing it.

Learn yourself the "Hyperion" product suite.

Hyperion Essbase for example.

Big bucks

But is that as sought after as CISCO.. I haven't even heard of it...

What exactly is it? How do I learn about it?

Sounds BORING.

Cisco is good, it can pay well, alot of people have it though.

It's not that hard to learn the content but the final exam demands very high standards, with a minium score of 84% to pass!

Oh aye!!

Put it this way, we pay guys £1400 a DAY to do this sorta stuff!

Im busy getting skilled up in it now.

Its all analytical reporting etc. Essbase is the multidimensional database, then theres tools (Analyzer, Intelligence etc..) to do graphical reporting.

Goto dev.hyperion.com and look thru the white papers. Theres any amounts of courses too.

U can get CISCO cert;s in kinder egg's these days man..

Every other college is doing them. Not worth the paper they are written on anymore.

If you wanna earn big money look elsewhere

Its the same with CISCO stuff - just a load of balls! Anyone can take and pass the exams these days but actually know fuck all.

No good at all!

I hope you are only referring to CCNA as opposed to general Cisco.........Get a CCNP, your flying, a CCIE, you tell people how much they are going to pay you.

Go take a CCNA Prometric and come back and repost that

I disagree that it's a load of balls tbh, when I was getting interviews for jobs for my placement alot of them said that the CCNA traning made me stand out.

Fair enough theres alot of "paper CCNAs' who get the qualification and then just don't really know stuff, but you can say that about anything really...if you read enough and learn answers then you can achieve as much as you want...

I wouldnt say CCNA was a high earning career making qualificaion, but it's a very good start and opens up the doors to higher qualifications such as the CCNP or something more specialised such as the CCSP.

If you wan't to get into the networking field (that's what I want to do) then it's one of the best starts you can have really.

Incidentally im going to do my CCNA traning again before i take my exam...starts next week at Gateshead college...it's only £150!!

Seriously only £150......
Might have to enrol like..

Yup, which is a mint price.

If you want to, better make it quick, drop a line to steve.beckwith@gateshead.ac.uk

So popular that they have had to do 2 classes!

The second one will be either Tuesday & Wednesday Evenings, or Wednesday & Thursday evenings

http://www.gateshead.ac.uk/factsheet.asp?id=12&cid=20721

I'll need to find out what nights my HNC is on this year first but I'm looking into this like!

What is it?
I ain't paying u 120K to tell me mind

Cisco is a very hard and well regonised qualification it has extremley high pass rate but it no use without industy experience as the quals dont really mirror real life its all theory based. The best thing to do is get a job low down prove yourself and move up. People think they can do a CCNA aor a MSCA and then get a 40k job and thats as likely as sleepy getting a fit bird

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Whats SAP?

When i get some money im gona teach myself linux like

my lecturer at uni said that if you learn COBOL you'll never be out of work?

i dont know how true that is but Dave Harrison is the boy.

I did a SAP module at uni, if you get 5 years of SAP experience you can easy get uptp 200K a year

Excellent

But that doesnt answer my question

SAP is like a full CRM system it deals with orders, customer databases, that kinda think. It is an fully tailored end to end buisness solution. We kinda do a similare one with Line500 but SAP is used by all the big boys

Sounds a bit like a suite called Everest..
Might look into that stuff like.. I kinda like working with and modifying applications..